Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks 
Here are some of the most popular posts I published on Bandwidth blog since its launch one year ago. South Africa’s top startups to watch (Was published in print) Afrigator beta launched (Was picked up by ReadWriteWeb) 24.com launch Laaik.it social media aggregator (Breaking news) The offices of todays internet companies (Reached the Digg homepage) [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Cape Town live ad
December 22, 2007 – 10:38 pm
I just spotted this in my Facebook news feed backend (home.php) – check out the three spelling mistakes. Classy. JHB Live has expanded its network to CT Live.. Good move although, they might want to get a new copy writer.
Bandwidth Blog continues to rise
December 17, 2007 – 9:08 pm
The referal traffic to Bandwidth Blog after my successfull Digg post (500 Diggs) has continued to rise. All the Digg traffic came and went after a few days but the referal ripple effects are still being felt. Many bloggers have picked up on the post and linked to it. Traffic from other social media aggregators [...]
New Car Blog theme
December 14, 2007 – 5:16 pm
Myself and Adii have finally finished the theme redesign for my network of blogs. Car Blog was the first to receive the new look. We have designed a theme that will be implemented and customized for all my blogs. I did the basic layout design then Adii finished off by adding his expert touch and [...]
Good reading
December 14, 2007 – 3:04 pm
Some stuff that caught my eye in my reader.. The age of micro celebrity by Clive thompson Om Malik: The new social network: WordPress WWD: Top 10 books for web workers TechCrunch Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its “Open Applications Platform” Jason Calacanis: Mahalo: Adding the social graph to search Pro Blogger: Discover Hundreds of [...]
The Digg effect – my experience
December 11, 2007 – 3:25 pm
I published a blog post yesterday on BandwidthBlog aimed at generating traffic from social bookmarking site’s like Digg and Delicious. I wanted to tap into the ‘list link bait’ success so I combined the Digg communities love of photos with the list blog post concept and a popular buzz word at the moment -web 2.0- [...]
Office photos
December 10, 2007 – 8:24 pm
Update 2 – BandwidthBlog suffered at the hands of Digg and was down for 2 hours. I finally got it back up around 3am. Exciting hitting the front page – the digg count flies – 55, 59, 67, 87, 110, 150 .. in a matter of seconds UPDATE – My article made it to the [...]
Photos from my trip to Silicon Valley for the MIH Tech conference.
I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008. Now to even be nominated is a great honour for me seeing as last years winner of the award is internationally renowned Vinny Lingham.
